Posted on 03/23/2005 10:01:06 AM PST by stylin_geek
For legal reasons, the names of the family and the 14-year old girl that are the subject of this story have been withheld at this time.
GRANITE CITY - A Sothern Illinois woman was arrested last week (March 17) after trying to intervene on behalf of her 14-year old daughter's effort to have an abortion. The girl was allegedly taken to an abortion clinic by the mother of the man allegedly to have impregnated the 14-year old.
According to the girl's mother, her 14-year old daughter was called off from school in Madison County by a woman posing as the girl's “grandmother.” The woman took the girl from her home only minutes before the girl’s mother returned home from work.
It was later determined that the woman who had posed as the "grandmother" to the school authorities was the mother of the male who had fathered the unborn child the 14-year old girl was carrying. The age of the male has not been released.
When the parents were notified their pregnant daughter was not at school, they suspected she had been taken to the Hope Abortion Clinic in Granite City. The parents and grandfather were the only persons authorized to request school absence for the fourteen year old female.
“My husband and I rushed to the abortion clinic where we saw our daughter’s name on the roster and the time she had checked in,” the mother said. She then went into the clinic and searched a room filled with young women awaiting abortions but did not see her daughter.
She took a seat near the main desk and said, “I was told I could not prove my daughter was there so I began calling her name. A medical tech at the clinic told me , ‘It’s your daughter’s rights, it’s her body. You have no rights.’”
After continuing to call out her daughter’s name and telling her “don’t do it,” authorities were called and the mother was arrested.
The 14-year old told her mother she could hear her but when she asked employees to give her mother a message, they came back to the room and told her that her mother had left.
Angela Michaels, of Small Victories Ministry, was tipped off as to what was happending at the Hope clinic. According to Michaels, she witnessed police placing the mother’s hands behind her back, taking her into custody. As the police were putting the mother in the squad car, she was crying out, “Please, please, help me...my daughter is in there.”
Michaels said, “Exactly one hour later at 10:35 a.m., the 14-year old emerged from the clinic looking disheveled. The 14-year old told us that employees kept her in a quiet room until the procedure was performed and she was told that her mother had left.”
Employees assured this girl on her departure, “No-one will ever know you were here, we’ll bury your records.”
In the meantime, the woman who had taken the girl for the abortion was slipped out the back door of the clinic.
The police in the community in which the family lives allegedly told the girl's mom that they couldn't intervene despite her making a charge that her daughter had been raped (by statute) because the charge was stale--7 weeks after the incident. They did tell the girl's mom that, while she had no right to stop the abortion, she did have a right to go into the clinic and speak to her daughter.
The parents are expected to file charges.
is it illegal to put a chastity belt on your daughter?
>>>Here's a better idea......
Suppose that the boys parents who abducted her from school to have an abortion without her parents consent look out their window during dinner tonite and find a hundred parents of 14 year old girls standing in their front yard with pitchforks.>>>
Is this sarcasm? If not, I'll be there. I have three daughters.
Most women who have abortions don't regard it as "killing their child". I certainly know women who had abortions in high school who are not "traumatized", do not regret the choice, and would advise their own teenage daughters to make the same choice. And certainly those women who have multiple abortions because they can never be bothered to use contraceptives, don't show any sign of being traumatized by the experience -- they don't make any real effort to avoid repeating the experience over and over again, so it must not be a big deal to them.
Why thank you! :)
Frankly, it's becoming an embarrassment to see how cowed our citizens are. Same with the Schiavo case. If that were my daughter, the court is not going to stop me. What happened to our "inalienable" rights given to us by God, not by man or the government. Of course, if we are too timid to collect those rights, we get exactly what we deserve.
I know one Right I'd exercise to protect my children: The 2nd Amendment!
And Eichmann wasn't traumatized about killing Jews, what's your point?
Proof that anything gets by the factchecker and that one has full license to create their own alternate reality in todays world.
I'll stand up for that.
Great idea. Kill the one person who isn't to blame.</sarcasm>
Liberty and individual rights are very expensive in terms of paying up to keep them. We've been making only the minimum payments on that tab for decades. At some point it's going to require more than a checkbook and lipservice.
You're darn right. In this situation, my daughter, my grandbaby? I would have found her.
My arrest would have been for more than trespassing.
bump
move on to his mother
Don't they have lists of approved 'pick ups'? I homeschool so I don't know for sure.
OMG. After reading crap like this, and the Terri stuff, I swear the end is near. And it won't be pretty.
That is a factual statement
I have a better idea that involves a pillow case a a couple of cue ball.
Why is this not kidnapping?
Unbelievable that our country has come to this.
Exactly what I was thinking. If you won't take action to protect your own children when in YOUR judgment they are in danger, when would you?
Yeah, too many people want to look at this and Terri as two different issues, rather than admitting this is both ends of the spectrum.
SHe's not old enough to be accountable for murder, but she's old enough to have her child killed.
And that's just the start. There is SO MUCH wrong with this picture.
Yeah, Dan, I saw this one earlier. There is so much wrong with this country.
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